SCMTD February 2004 Board of Directors Agendas - Santa Cruz ...

Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District
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FIRM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Brown Armstrong currently employs 56 people:
Total
Shareholders (Partners) 7
Managers 12
Seniors, Audit and Tax 4
Staff Accountants, Audit and Tax 19
Technicians and Other Support 14
Total 56
All work on the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District audit will be performed by personnel
employed at our office located in Bakersfield, California. All assigned personnel will be
employed on a full-time basis.
As part of its commitment to quality control, the firm has been a member of the SEC Practice
Section of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). We have completed
five quality peer reviews over a period of fifteen years under the Section’s guidance, and we have
enclosed our most recent unqualified report. As a part of the peer review, the AICPA mandates a
Single Audit Act client be reviewed by the review team, which was done during each of our
reviews. No substantive problems or issues were raised. A copy of this report is included as
Exhibit I.
We have had no disciplinary action taken against the firm or any of its members nor do we have
any actions pending at the date of this proposal. Single audit reports are filed annually with the
Federal Audit Clearinghouse. All of our school district reports are desk reviewed by the
California State Controller’s Office (SCO) every year. During the last three years, none of the
referenced reports have been remanded to the clients for additional work. All were accepted
upon the initial submission.
BROWN ARMSTRONG
ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION 6
Providing Accounting and Auditing Servict
for more than 29 yeai